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inebriety

[in-i-brahy-i-tee] / ˌɪn ɪˈbraɪ ɪ ti /


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This condition differs from the condition called inebriety in the fact that it is a periodical expression of degeneracy whose form has been accidently determined, but which would exist even were its form changed.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot

He had drunk a good deal, but any inebriety from which he suffered was due much more to his own vivacity than to alcohol.

From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

It was not likely she had given him money, said Cutler, because he was about the post all that day after the Plumes' departure and with never a sign of inebriety.

From An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier by Frederic Remington

This gave the room the appearance of having been toyed with by an impatient cyclone, or an air of inebriety not in keeping with my poor but honest character.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

There was, however, too much method in the next proceedings for it to be attributed wholly to emotional inebriety.

From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam




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